Re: La tomatina- Why is it allowed in Christianity, ?
oh for crying out loud, lol
http://www.lahoya.net/tomatina/histoin.html
Read about it, for those who won’t click…
"However, the most reliable and historical version says that everything started in 1945. The town square (where the “tomatina” is traditionally held nowadays) was crowded with young people of that time to witness a “Gigantes y Cabezudos” parade (giant carnival figures with a grotesque head). Some of them decided to join the authority commitee and music band leading the parade and to do so they pushed the ones who were wearing the giant disguises.
One of the participants fell down and when he stood up he started beating everyone around so everybody got caught up in a fight.Fate or chance, there was a vegetable stall nearby with open crates showing the goods for sale. The young people involved in the fight took the tomatoes from the crates and started throwing them at each other until the police broke up “the battle”, and those responsible for the riot paid for the damages.
This riot was not forgotten and the next year on the same Wednesday of August the youths of the town met again at the square, but this time with their own tomatoes. This is how another battle started and once again was stopped by the local police. In fact, in the following years the authorities forbade the celebration of what was already popularly known as the “day of the tomatina”. Nevertheless, this celebration has been held every year since them."
Code_Red… come on… bet for days guppies were telling each other… guess what I found out? and in 20 yrs another myth will be born rolling eyes…